Wickedness in Jerusalem

Psalm 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in
Jerusalem. The speaker is outside, but has experienced this
wickedness in the treachery of his dearest friends. His resource
is in God: Jehovah will save. He is looking back, I judge, at all
that he had experienced in Jerusalem. Wickedness went about her
walls. Wickedness, deceit, and guile were in her midst, nor
departed from her streets. He would fain have fled from it
all. The enemy was without, the wicked within; but they charged
the godly with wickedness, and utterly hated them; but worst of
all was the heartless treachery of those within, those with whom
the godly had gone in company to the house of God. Still his trust
was in God, for where else should he seek help?